Anyone who knows me will tell you that I REALLY dislike mice. I mean REALLY REALLY hate them. I’m the jump on the counter and wait for hours for someone to rescue me person (Yep! That’s happened!) I have no shame in my game. Mice scare the bejeezus out of me. You can imagine my horror as I prepared for our story this week and had to read all about mice. Mice as a class pet no less. That’s what I need, 6 year olds thinking we need a mouse. Uh! No! I really needed to turn this around. So I decided we would focus on mice facts and I would throw in a dash of my opinion. The kids loved it. I’m a little worried that they took so much joy in finding out how I reacted to the sight of mice. I may regret that come April Fool’s.
I started this research project by having the students look through our story and find 3 interesting facts about mice. They each recorded their facts on the graphic organizer. We worked together to generate topic sentences. Day 2 the students used their graphic organizer to write their ‘Facts About Mice’ research paper. After they finished their writing the students made the cute mouse craftivity. I admit, the bulletin board did look cute (even if mice are icky)! You can find this activity in my TpT store {here}.